DeAnna Beachley’s The Long View leaps from the Desert Sand Verbena to the rings of Saturn; from the deep wells of the past to the rim of an increasingly volatile future. A big-hearted celebration of Earth’s most elemental energies, these poems add their voice to the oldest songs we have. They rumble, thrum, welcome us to the ramble and scramble of the American West; they fuse and fissure on the page, rushing with poetry like arroyos after a monsoon. With her keen, nourishing eye that gathers us together with the Great Horned Owl and chuckwalla, the brittlebush and the purple aster, Beachley reminds us of our membership in the cosmic community. We will need The Long View ’s grace for the uncertain years ahead. —Claire Wahmanholm, Meltwater (Milkweed Editions) The Long View anchors our messy hearts in the Mojave. With brilliance and sincerity, Beachley celebrates the strength and the delicacy of the place she calls home. Her juxtapositions are heart wrenching, allowing us to see, with fresher eyes, our world which exists beneath a “sun blunted by / wildfire smoke.” Nevertheless, The Long View celebrates past, present, and future in a collection which witnesses even “water as fossil.” —Heather Lang-Cassera, Gathering Broken Light (Unsolicited Press) The Long View embraces the sacredness of the desert—its arid splendor, its fissures, and its transformations—in an elegiac array of odes, imagery, and experimental forms. Here, we inhabit the desert wash and heed the warning circle of birds that may outlive us. They provide a clear-eyed trail for us to follow across the cool sand, urging us to “Stop and look” at the “pure magic” of flowers surviving here. In the titular poem, her speaker asks, “How long do you have to be some / where to know yourself?” Beachley’s attention to place situates the self within the sacred; not through transcendence, but rather in the grandeur of knowing a place, of learning how to dwell within the “earth language” to become a part of its “core.” —Jared Beloff, Who Will Cradle Your Head (ELJ Editions)